Preparing for Christmas Challenge: Today make a sacrifice, foregoing a comfort or something you really like, and offering it up to God in reparation for sins––especially your own.
Power in Weakness Challenge: Go before the Blessed Sacrament today to intensify your union and friendship with the Risen Lord.
Show Humility and Faith Challenge: Offer a word or gesture of encouragement to somebody in need.
Flood-Proof Challenge: Do one external act of witness to the faith.
Jesus Is the Bread of Life Challenge: Pause sometime during the day and make a spiritual communion by inviting Christ into your heart.
Holy Gospel: December 6 “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” (Matthew 9: 35–10: 1, 5a, 6-8)
Holy Gospel: December 5 “Let it be done for you according to your faith.” (Matthew 9: 27-31)
Holy Gospel: December 4 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven,
but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven." (Matthew 7:21, 24-27)
Seasons In The Desert (Part One) What is a desert experience? What does it feel like? All of us have been appointed by God to spend certain seasons of our lives in the desert, that we might be cleansed, purged, changed, and drawn closer to Him through that experience. In the first part of this series, we establish that God, and not Satan, is the One Who leads His children into the desert.
The Pruning Knife of Heaven When God sets out to produce spiritual fruit in our lives, he doesn't send the fruit; He sends the instrument through which that fruit will be cultivated.
There Is No Need to Hide When Adam sinned against God, his reaction was to run off and hide, but the Lord wants us to run to Him, and not from Him, when we sin.
Christ Exalted in My Body How do we respond when going through difficult or frustrating situations? Where is our focus during those dark times? Is it on escape or the exaltation of Christ?
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